Now, the "Dukes of Hazzard" Car, Fort Hobby?, Fort Bragg, Trump and Mississippi Flag Change

JULY 5, 2020


**  Museum:  'Dukes of Hazzard' car with Confederate flag will stay.  (Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois.  You know who wanted it gone.  Really, what they got 'gainst Bo, Luke and Daisy?

**  Confederate signs still on graves as history is re-examined.

**  Reader suggests renaming Fort Hood for Ovetta Culb Hobby.  (She was a white woman and first director of U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.  This could be a good name for the renamed base if it comes to that.)

**  Fort Bragg commission to tackle name change issue, systemic racism.

**  Dem senator says Trump would be 'abandoning the troops' if he vetoes Defense spending bill.

**  About race and erasure:  How America should sort through complicated questions about monuments and men.  (New York Daily News.  Interesting take on the situation.)

**  Analysis:  Ex-Rep Henry set path to Mississippi flag change.

--  Old Secesh

Did Bubba Watson Remove the General Lee's Confederate Flag?-- Part 2

You've just got to love the name Bubba in this article.  Seems fitting, right Cooter?

Three years later, during the widespread drive to remove all things Confederate, Bubba Watson tweeted:  "All men are created equal, I believe that so will be  be painting the American flag  over the roof of the  General Lee #USA."

The Volo Auto Museum in Lake County, Illinois, out close to me, which owns the only other surviving Georgia General Lee, quickly offered to buy Watson's car, but he never replied.

But, no one has ever seen whether Mr. Watson made good on his promise.  John Schneider doesn''t think he did.

While the current value of the car is not known, classic car experts say that removing the Confederate flag would have a negative impact on the car's value.

Well, then there is the problem with the car's name.

Did Bubba Shoot the Jukebox?  --Old Secesh

John Schneider Doesn't Think Bubba Watson Took Confederate Flag Off His General Lee-- Part 1

From Oct. 31, 2019, Fox News by Gary Gastelu.

John Schneider played Bo Duke on the TV show "Dukes of Hazzard" and says he doubts that golfer Bubba Watson  lived up to his promise to remove the Confederate flag from the iconic Dodge Charger  "General Lee" that they drove.  Supposedly he was to replace it with a U.S. flag.

Watson bought the fully restored car in 2012 for $121,000.  This is the actual General Lee that was shown jumping over a police car in the show's opening credits.  It was designated as  "Lee 1" by the production team, and later repainted and reused in a different role then sent to a Georgia junkyard where it was rediscovered twenty years later.

Hundreds of stunt cars were used during the show's seven-year run, but Watson's is one of only two known to have survived the  from the Georgia shoots before production was moved to California.

Watson is a long-time fan of the show and drove it often in public but the Confederate flag painted on its roof became an issue when NASCAR canceled a scheduled parade lap by the car before the Phoenix race that year.

Really, NASCAR, the General Lee?

You Just Can't Know About a Guy Named Bubba.  --Old SecLee1